The Umbrella Movement’s poster boy could be giving a talk on the pro-democracy campaign—8,000 miles away from Hong Kong.
Joshua Wong, the leader of Scholarism and most prominent face of the 79-day long student-led Occupy protests in Hong Kong, is headed to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Feb. 23 on the invitation of Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.
The 18-year-old college student will speak in a seminar entitled, “Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement in Regional Perspective,” along with Yu Au-loong, a Hong Kong activist, and Wu Jieh-min, a researcher at Academia Sinica, a Taiwan academic institution.